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[quote=Anonymous]I just saw this thread-- OP,  I hope you are hanging in there.  I was with both my grandparents (who raised me) during their last weeks ... my Grandmother lasted a little more than 2 weeks in hospice care, my Grandfather a few days.  I am sitting here writing with tears in my eyes because as exhausting and draining and emotionally raw and fragile a time it is, as I look back now, I realize what an honor it was to sit by two people's bedsides that I adored and to have had those final moments with them.  For me, I was able to talk to them and hold their hands even when they couldn't respond, and as unsettling as some of the times were when they were clearly uncomfortable/under the influence of medication, when they got to the very end it was peaceful.  They both just sort of slipped away. To this day, I'm happy knowing they left this world surrounded by love and light, which is what they gave me every single day of my childhood.  I miss them dearly and reading something like this brings up so many memories, but I'm thankful to have a minute this morning to sit and think about how wonderful they really were.  I hope the final journey you take with your mother is filled with quiet reflections and happy memories.  I'm sending prayers for you.[/quote]

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